Popular baby names in Texas, 1927

The most popular baby names in Texas in 1927 were Mary for girls (3,608 babies) and James for boys (2,675). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 117,499 babies born in Texas in 1927 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Texas in 1927

Names given at least 15 times in Texas that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Jesusa: 35 babies, 19.1× the national rate
Elida: 64 babies, 17.3× the national rate
Dominga: 57 babies, 16.3× the national rate
Santos: 52 babies, 16.2× the national rate
Josefa: 52 babies, 15.7× the national rate
Genoveva: 36 babies, 15.1× the national rate
Tomasa: 58 babies, 14.5× the national rate
Evangelina: 46 babies, 14.1× the national rate
Herminia: 44 babies, 13.5× the national rate
Estela: 49 babies, 13.4× the national rate

Boys

Esteban: 44 babies, 15.6× the national rate
Adan: 37 babies, 15.3× the national rate
Guadalupe: 172 babies, 14.8× the national rate
Santos: 94 babies, 14.8× the national rate
Ramiro: 57 babies, 14.8× the national rate
Domingo: 110 babies, 14.3× the national rate
Hilario: 34 babies, 14.3× the national rate
Raymundo: 32 babies, 14.1× the national rate
Eusebio: 29 babies, 14× the national rate
Pablo: 112 babies, 13.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Texas, 1927

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	Mary	3,608	–	1
2	Dorothy	1,885	–	2
3	Betty	1,648	–	3
4	Maria	1,323	–	>100
5	Helen	922	–	4
6	Doris	879	–	7
7	Billie	813	–	>100
8	Frances	771	–	12
9	Margaret	701	–	5
10	Juanita	615	↑3	55
11	Ruby	612	↓1	30
12	Virginia	610	–	8
13	Mildred	609	↓2	11
14	Wanda	535	↑6	66
15	Ruth	496	↓1	6
16	Martha	485	–	24
17	Willie	466	↑1	71
18	Evelyn	461	↓3	15
19	Annie	455	↓2	36
20	Joyce	423	↓1	35
21	Alice	420	–	17
22	Gloria	389	–	22
23	Lois	346	↑1	19
24	Bobbie	330	↑17	>100
25	Gladys	330	↓2	37
26	Barbara	320	↑24	10
27	Edna	315	↓2	40
28	Marjorie	315	↑3	25
29	Norma	313	↑4	26
30	Margie	311	↑5	>100
31	Emma	308	↓5	64
32	Thelma	297	↓5	38
33	Irene	296	↑5	21
34	Peggy	294	↑5	96
35	Guadalupe	284	↑10	>100
36	Elizabeth	280	↓7	13
37	Marie	273	↓5	20
38	Hazel	271	↓4	53
39	Louise	270	↓9	27
40	Patsy	270	new	>100
41	Lillian	263	↓1	32
42	Lillie	263	↓6	94
43	Eva	261	↑3	79
44	Pauline	251	↓7	42
45	Jean	247	↓1	14
46	Jessie	247	↓3	95
47	Anna	245	↓19	16
48	Julia	243	↓6	76
49	Rosa	238	new	>100
50	Bonnie	236	new	100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	James	2,675	–	3
2	John	1,848	–	2
3	William	1,753	↑1	4
4	Robert	1,726	↓1	1
5	Billy	1,462	↑1	31
6	Charles	1,462	↓1	5
7	Joe	945	–	30
8	George	927	–	7
9	Jose	843	–	>100
10	Jack	753	–	16
11	Thomas	669	–	11
12	Frank	591	–	12
13	Henry	541	↑3	19
14	Willie	533	–	27
15	Richard	517	↓2	6
16	Manuel	489	↑1	>100
17	Raymond	479	↓2	15
18	Edward	477	–	10
19	Harold	465	↑1	14
20	Juan	443	↑3	>100
21	Bobby	436	↑10	91
22	Roy	436	↓3	34
23	David	435	↓1	21
24	Walter	407	↓3	17
25	Paul	388	–	13
26	Jesus	383	↑1	>100
27	Donald	370	↑3	8
28	Kenneth	359	↓2	18
29	Albert	347	↓1	23
30	Clarence	334	↓6	32
31	Louis	321	↑2	29
32	Joseph	318	↓3	9
33	Eugene	298	↑2	20
34	Carl	296	↑6	26
35	Fred	287	↓1	35
36	Antonio	286	↑5	>100
37	Francisco	285	↑7	>100
38	Arthur	282	↓6	22
39	Billie	282	–	>100
40	Ernest	267	↓2	41
41	Earl	262	↓5	33
42	Jesse	250	↓5	89
43	Daniel	246	new	46
44	Jimmie	246	new	>100
45	Floyd	245	↓3	53
46	Melvin	244	–	48
47	Marvin	242	↓4	47
48	Charlie	240	new	80
49	Pedro	228	↓4	>100
50	Lee	221	new	86

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